Jasmine

Jasminum grandiflorum

Essential oil from delicate jasmine petals is highly valued. It was noticed that the flowers emit a honey-cool aroma most strongly at night. The jasmine bush seems to envelop itself in a light invisible cloud. Indeed, it is at night that the content of essential oil in the flowers of the plant increases. Therefore, delicate, weightless flowers are collected at night and immediately processed.

Jasmine can be called a female flower. The ancients used it to ensure that pregnancy proceeded easily and without complications. To facilitate labor, the mother's body was anointed with jasmine oil. The fragrance of jasmine helped to find a state of peace and tranquility in the soul.

Avicenna wrote that jasmine thins fluids well, helps with nerve diseases and recommended its use by older people as a tonic, and by women to get rid of freckles.

Medicinal properties

1. Eliminates painful menstruation, frigidity, impotence, inflammatory processes of the genital organs in women. Relaxes the smooth muscles of the uterus, which promotes easy and quick childbirth.
2. Has an antispasmodic effect.
3. Regulates the functions of the endocrine glands.
4. An effective expectorant for respiratory diseases.
5. Recommended for hoarseness of voice.
6. It has a warming and relaxing effect during hypothermia.
7. Used for skin care for allergic rashes, dermatitis, eczema, inflammation. Eliminates itching.
8. Helps with insomnia, headaches, nervous tension, depression. Calms, gives a feeling of self-confidence.
9. Gentle jasmine oil is well suited for caring for very sensitive skin prone to irritation and flaking. With regular use, it gives a mild whitening effect and rejuvenates.

Dosage

Externally: 3-4 k. per 10 ml of vegetable oil.

Internally: 2 k. for 1 tsp. honey 2 times a day after meals.

Baths: 4-6 k.

Enrichment of cosmetics: 2-3 k. per 10 g of base.

Contraindications. Individual intolerance, 1-4 months of pregnancy, hypotension.

Note. An overdose can cause headaches and nosebleeds.